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Course · CPD-standard · Online
Health & Safety in the Workplace — Free Practice Course
🕑 Self-paced · about 3 hours
🧩 11 guided steps 🎯 10-question assessments, randomised
12 months’ access · study on any device · no subscription
Written and taught by a CPD Approved Provider (#791025)
Most workplace accidents are the small, ordinary things nobody got round to fixing: the spill left on the floor, the box wedged against a fire door, the load lifted the wrong way. This free taster gives you a genuine feel for how we teach health and safety, so you can see the quality before you commit to the full course.
🆕 Free, no catch
Two proper lessons and a practice quiz. A real slice of the full course, not a sales pitch.
🇬🇧 Written for the UK
Built around the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and HSE guidance, exactly like the paid course.
⬆️ Go further any time
Ready for the full syllabus and a CPD-standard certificate? The paid course picks up where this leaves off.
What’s in the taster
- Health and safety law, and the duties it puts on both employers and employees
- How to tell a hazard from a risk, and the five-step way to assess and control one
- Two quick practice games and a short quiz to check what stuck
Course content
- Welcome to the TasterLesson
- Health and Safety, the Law and Your Part in ItLesson
- Why any of this mattersTopic
- The law, in plain EnglishTopic
- Duties run both waysTopic
- Spotting Hazards and Working SafelyLesson
- Hazard or risk?Topic
- The five-step risk assessmentTopic
- Controlling hazards, most effective firstTopic
- Where to Go From HereLesson
- Health & Safety in the Workplace — Practice AssessmentQuiz